6 mysterious places in India which hide many untold secrets.

World is full of mysteries and there are lots of places in world where historians, scientists are not able to solve some mysteries. India too has many places which look natural but are unnatural and mysteries of these places have been mystery for ages and modern science has not been able to solve these mysteries. Let us go on tour of these places where some unnatural and mysterious events happen and there is no clue with anyone why it happens.

Mass birds suicide in Jatinga Assam – Jatinga is a small village located in Assam, a state in northeastern India. The village is lush green and scenic, surrounded by serene mountains. But that’s not what it’s famous for. In fact, Jatinga is well-known for an entirely different reason – its Bird Mystery. The Bird Mystery is a unique phenomenon that occurs at Jatinga between September and November each year. During these late monsoon months, several migratory and local birds commit mass suicide at the village. Just after sunset, between 7 and 10 pm, hundreds of birds descend from the sky, plummeting to their deaths by crashing into buildings and trees. Since birds aren’t known to be suicidal, the phenomenon has baffled villagers, visitors and scientists alike. For many years, locals believed that evil spirits living in the skies were responsible for bringing down the birds.

Bhangarh Fort Rajasthan – Built in 17th Century by Man Singh I, the fort is believed to be haunted by ghosts and no one dares to enter the fort after sunset. There is a warning board by Archeological Survey of India which instructs visitors and locals not to enter fort after sunset and before sunrise. As per stories, this place was cursed by a black magician who one sided loved princess Ratnavati. Ratnavati was the princess of Bhangarh and was famed for her stately beauty all over her own kingdom and the neighboring states. By the time the princess turned 18 years old, she started getting matrimonial offers from different states. There was a tantric (black magician) called Singhia, who was completely fascinated and obsessed by her but knew that his match was impossible with the princess.

But Singhia under the spell of glorious beauty of The Princess decided to decoy the princess with his magical powers. One day Singhia saw the princess’s maid in the market. So he thought, he’ll marry the princess by using black magic on the oil that the maid was purchasing so that upon touching it, the princess would surrender herself to magician. However, the princess saw the Sanghia Tantrik trick that he was enchanting the oil. So the princess poured the oil on to the ground. The oil on ground turned into a rock and rolled towards the magician and crushed Singhia. Before dying, the magician cursed the Bhangarh city to death and said there will be no more rebirths. After this incident, the curse showed its results in a battle between Bhangarh and Ajabgarh, where Ratnavati was assassinated. No one survived in Bhangarh and due to impact of Shinghia curse, evil spirits rule the place and locals tell that one who has gone to fort after sunset has never returned.

Karni mata temple in Bikaner, Rajasthan – Located at distance of 30 kilometers from Bikaner, Rajasthan, Karni Mata temple is also known as temple of rats. The temple is famous for approximate 20,000 rats living in the temple. These holy rats are called Kabbas and numbers of people across the country come to visit the temple every year. Several tourists around the world curiously visit the temple. The rats are known to be reincarnates of Karni mata and are worshiped.

Devotees offer prayer offerings (Parshad) to the rats and eat half eaten offering by the rats. Surprisingly no one has fallen ill by eating rat’s eaten ‘parshad’. People believe it to be auspicious to eat offering equally eaten by rats.

Malana village, Himachal Pradesh – Situated in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, Malana village is itself a different place from rest of world. People living here have different traditions, rules and customs and village is isolated from rest of world. No jurisdiction interferes in the village affairs and villagers have their separate administration and governance rules.

According to the local legends, Jamlu rishi inhabited this place and made rules and regulations. The locals claim it to be one of the oldest democracies of the world with a well-organized parliamentary system, guided by their devta (deity) Jamlu rishi. The inhabitants of the village strictly follow the rules governed and visitors are allowed to visit the village with some conditions. Visitors are not allowed to touch anything in the village as villagers believe that their deity will curse if any non inhabitant of the village touches any building or person in the village.

The people are friendly but outsiders are told to keep distance and not touch anything in the village. The shopkeepers will ask you to keep the money on the counter and place the goods on the counter, without any physical contact. In case of any contact, they will rush for a bath. What is mystery behind the behaviour of Malana people, no one bothers to find it, people visit and spend their time in village and walk out. Government too never interferes in the village affairs.

Om Banna (Bullet Baba) temple – This temple is not devoted to any God or Goddess but a man, Om Singh Rathore. Om lost his life on 2nd December, 1988 when he was travelling on his motorcycle on a road near Chotia village in Pali district of Rajasthan. He lost control on the vehicle and his bike struck in a tree and Om dies instantly. His bike fell down in the ditch near the accident site. Police took the motorcycle to the near police station. Next day the motorcycle was missing from the police station and was found at the accident site. Police brought the motorcycle back to the police station and one again it was found at the accident time. Once again police brought the motorcycle back to the police station and fuel tank was emptied and motorcycle tyre was tied with a chain. Surprisingly this too thwarted the motorcycle to disappear and found at the accident site.

Police had now understood something unnatural in these repeated occurrences and placed the motorcycle at the accident site and constructed a temple. It is said that Om’s spirit helps stranded people on the road. People heading towards Pali in Rajasthan halt at ‘Bullet Baba’ temple to offer their obeisance. The story looks unbelievable but founding Om’s motorcycle despite empty fuel tank and tyres chained with iron chain make people to believe in this supernatural event.

The great banyan tree, Kolkata – The image above is not a forest but a single tree. Sounds surprising, but it’s true. The Great Banyan tree is about 200 years old, and its plantation date is unknown. The tree is mentioned in many travel books of the nineteenth century as a very spectacular element. It survived two great cyclones in 1884 and 1887, when some of its main branches were broken. With its large number of aerial roots, The Great Banyan looks more like a forest than an individual tree. The tree now lives without its main trunk, which decayed and was removed in 1925. A monument has been erected to the dead trunk, but is hardly accessible to visitors, who only have access to the perimetre of the tree. The area occupied by the tree is about 14,500 square metres (about 1.5 hectares or 4 acres). The present crown of the tree has a circumference of nearly half a kilometre and the highest branch rises to about 25 m; it has at present more than 3300 aerial roots reaching down to the ground.

These are surprising places or event in India which hides many mysteries. Number of people round the world come to these places to see the facts which they listen from others or read somewhere. There are many other places having mysterious or unnatural features, surely you will be acquainted with those as well in future posts.